Today, about two-thirds of women with children work outside the home, at least part time. Shifting from the responsibilities of the workplace to the equally responsible job of parenting is a tall order. Every parent knows how chaotic the hours after work and before bedtime can be. To manage the home, young couples are challenged to share the load...

When asked to write a piece about the situation we have in our house, I hesitated to use the term "Mr. Mom" because there is a slightly negative connotation to it. After all, no "real man" would look after the kids on a regular basis. Fortunately, my wife and I live in Southern California, in the United States, and life out here is a little more...

When doctors told Nancy Boltz at 19 that she wouldn’t be able to have children, she was nonplussed, “Oh, well, I didn’t want to have kids anyway,” she said, taking it in stride. “I used to role play with Barbies and I was always the career woman who had no children and sometimes was not even married.” In real life, Nancy did marry....

When Josie Alvord turned twenty-one she found herself living the life of a total stranger. She had regularly given thought to the kind of life she hoped to lead one day – a life full of children, a loving husband, a home in the country. But when her husband abandoned her and their six-month-old son, Josie's previous wishes suddenly became unrealistic...

I slipped into his room late one evening as I arrived home from work so that I could give him a goodnight snuggle and a kiss, only to find him wide awake. “Hey Dad, it’s Wednesday!” my 12-year-old said. “Tonight was our date night, Dad! You forgot!” Somewhere between the deadlines and the meetings and the to-do list, I’d forgotten...